Talking to Your Friends and Colleagues about a Traumatic North Carolina Car Accident
You and/or a close family member was recently involved in a traumatic, terrifying, possibly catastrophic North Carolina car, motorcycle, truck, or bus accident.
In the hours, days, or weeks since, you have been trying to pick up the pieces of your life and put them back together again. One strategy you might deploy – the sooner the better – is to connect with an experienced North Carolina car accident law firm to go over your strategic and tactical opportunities to recover damages and hold wrongdoers to legal account.
Beyond that, you also face day-to-day stresses. Specifically, you may face a certain pregnant silence with friends, co-workers, or possibly even close family members when the topic of your accident comes up. You know what happened. The other person knows something about what happened. Or maybe knows only bits or pieces. But the disconnect between the other person’s curiosity, interest, concern, etc., and your ability or emotional tolerance for talking about what happened may be quite big.
This gulf creates social tension.
The other person may want to know about the accident and push your boundaries. Or you might feel “weird” talking about the shocking nature of the accident, since you don’t want to disturb the other person with your legal, financial, medical, or logistical concerns.
So what can you do to ease this small but surprisingly vexing social problem?
One strategy is to prepare “talking points” about the accident so you can quickly dispatch with common queries. Write out scripted responses for common questions. Memorize them, or at least read them over a few times, so you feel more prepared about how to deal with the questions.
Another strategy is to practice “being in the moment” whenever conversations about the accident arise. In other words, don’t pre-prepare. But prepare to be thrown off of your game. Recognize that the topic of your accident will come up from time to time, and steel yourself, emotionally and otherwise, to manage your feelings about those conversations.
Say a careless co-worker, for instance, won’t stop bugging you with questions about the accident. Just pay attention to your emotional state and, in no-nonsense terms, tell the person to stop bugging you and/or give yourself some “soothing time” after the experience. For instance, take a nice bath, talk to a friend about the traumatic conversation, or engage in something restful and refreshing, like exercise, meditation, yoga, sleep, etc.
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